Month: October 2016

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of eligble Millennial voters is steadily growing and almost equal to the number of eleigible Baby Boomer voters. According to this article on the Pew Research Center website, millennials have already exceeded the amount of Baby Boomers still living and the number of eligible voters will soon surpass the …

The New York Times is catching up with the times (pun intended) and has recently started to put a larger emphasis on gender issues. The former deputy exectutive editor at The Times, Susan Chira, has been made a senior correspondent for gender issues. She and other writers will be covering more news regarding gender issues …

Women are making changes in a BIG way in the world of surfing. I know my blog has a political focus relating to minorites and women, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about something women have accomplished outside the political sphere. First, I'll start by defining the difference between big wave surfing …

Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s are not one and the same but they are quite similar. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an activist movement fighting violence and oppression of black people, not only in America but internationally as well. I'll be focusing on the part of the …

The FBI director James Comey revealed to Congress in a letter on Friday that the FBI would be investigating new information about Hillary Clinton's emails. Director Comey's announcement has come at one of the worst possible times for Hillary Clinton. Many have criticised the way in which he announced the reopened investigation and also the …

I saw this table shared on Facebook an I thought it was really helpful. I know it doesn't include Jill Stein's positions, but I figured it was still a useful graphic. I looked for the original source but I could only find where it was reposted on bluevirginia.us and they didn't list the orignial author.

As Election Day draws near, Hillary Clinton and her campaign know that their chances of winning the election are extremely high. Thus, they're choosing to shift resources to states that they traditionally would not send them to. Clinton is being very bold with this move and by saying that, "I don't even think about responding …